Former Pro Bowl defensive tackle Gerald McCoy was one of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers most involved players in the community since being drafted 3rd overall in the 2010 NFL Draft.
Gerald’s mother (Patricia Diane McCoy) passed away suddenly and unexpectedly while Gerald was a freshman at the University of Oklahoma. Gerald knows first-hand what it is like to live with just one parent and how that can negatively impact an entire family emotionally and financially.
It is those experiences that led Gerald to establish Gerald McCoy’s Patricia Diane Foundation in honor of his late mother.
IMPACT
Currently,
the Gerald McCoy’s Patricia Diane Foundation serves low-income single parents
and their children throughout the McCoy Family’s communities throughout Tampa
Bay, Dallas, Oklahoma, and Las Vegas.
NEED
Approximately 26% of children in the U.S. are being raised in single-parent households. In Florida alone, 79% of households headed by single mothers face ongoing poverty.
WHY?
Gerald’s mother (Patricia Diane McCoy) passed away suddenly and unexpectedly while Gerald was a freshman at the University of Oklahoma. Gerald knows first-hand what it is like to live with just one parent.
HELPING SINGLE PARENT FAMILIES TO
REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL AND BEAT THE ODDS.
The Patricia Diane Foundation is a fiscally sponsored project of the Edward Charles Foundation, a 501c3 public non-profit organization (tax ID 26-4245043).
